Oregon State Police have three big crime categories Crimes against persons, such as murder, rape, and kidnapping. Crimes against property, such as robbery, fraud, and vandalism.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Both violent crime and property crime decreased in many of Oregon’s largest cities from 2021 to 2022, according to preliminary data released by the FBI.

A rise in crime during the pandemic across most of Oregon’s largest cities — including Portland — is abating, according to a new state analysis of preliminary federal crime data. From 2021 ...

Elsewhere in the state, crime is even less of a factor. In Salem, crime rates have held steady since before the pandemic. Police there reported nine homicides in 2019, five in 2020 and 10 in 2021.

Oregon was third with a rate of 551.5 motor vehicle thefts. The national average for 2022 was 282.7 cars stolen per 100,000 people — roughly half the rate seen in Oregon during the same period.